This workshop will engage with themes surrounding migrant lives and livelihoods in communities throughout Canada. Through a focus on greater Toronto, it aims to explore the social relations of migrant and diasporic communities.
Workshop leads
Suzanne Narain is a highly experienced community organizer, including with Jane and
Finch Action Against Poverty, who has completed a PhD at OISE, University of
Toronto, and is a facilitator for Workers’ Justice, a community-based course on
rights and action run by Jane Finch Education and Action Group and 91ÑÇÉ«
University’s Global Labour Research Centre.
Nira Elgueta Faundez is a master’s student in Environment Studies at 91ÑÇÉ«,
researching how precarious and non-status Latin American migrant women in
Toronto mobilize traditional knowledge, solidarity practices, and the principles of
Buen Vivir to build community, exercise self-agency, and negotiate belonging in a
city that structurally excludes them. As a feminist researcher with over a decade of
advocacy and research on gender-based violence and legal status precarity, Nira is
guided by a deep commitment to equity, inclusion and collective well-being.
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